Poor kid. I hope she heals well and quickly. We try to get them to not do the teenage flop but they will anyhow. My DD has asked me how she lived long enough to make me Gramma. She may be lucky they weren't smaller needles that would have been sharper and penetrated deeper, more easily. Will she get to be on a TV show? You know, those weird visits to the hospital and stuff.

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Poor kid. I hope she heals well and quickly. We try to get them to not do the teenage flop but they will anyhow. My DD has asked me how she lived long enough to make me Gramma. She may be lucky they weren't smaller needles that would have been sharper and penetrated deeper, more easily. Will she get to be on a TV show? You know, those weird visits to the hospital and stuff.

We thought the same thing about the smaller needles, GG. I was joking about trying to get in touch with some of those shows, she didn't see the humor in it at all. I'd still like to try though. Not sure if it is gory enough or serious enough, though. It is definitely strange enough, though. The ER staff said it was the strangest thing they had ever seen.

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My GD was doing something once, tipping back in a chair she was sitting in maybe, and wouldn't stop when I told her to. I finally asked her, would you like to have to go to the ER with that up your butt? She quit. I thought it was a joke, maybe not so much. Kids. We love 'em anyhow.

__________________~ GG

Cheating is an option. . . . Cheaters never win and winners never cheat, but smart knitters who want to retain an iota of sanity do, cheerfully. ~~Kory Stamper

My 22 year old has been in the trauma room at the local ER 4 times now I think? Possibly just 3. Once for a bicycle wreck (they thought he had lacerated his liver, he hadn't), once for trying to cut off his finger, once when he rolled his truck, and after a motorcycle accident. 4 times. I keep telling him he isn't a cat, he doesn't have 9 lives!!

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The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

This reminds me of when my daughter was in college she was running from the car to the house she was renting on campus I the rain and stepped on something that went all the way through her running shoe.
She tried taking her shoe off but it wouldn't come off and thought she'd stepped on a nail. Had a friend take her to the ER.. When they looked at the bottom of the shoe they couldn't see anything, but also couldn't get the shoe off. Took an Xray that showed a piece of something stuck in her foot. They finally removed it and it was a stick that had gone between the ridges in her shoe and into her foot.
She also was on antibiotics for awhile.
No one in the ER had ever seen that before either.
Kids, gotta love em.

This reminds me of when my daughter was in college she was running from the car to the house she was renting on campus I the rain and stepped on something that went all the way through her running shoe.
She tried taking her shoe off but it wouldn't come off and thought she'd stepped on a nail. Had a friend take her to the ER.. When they looked at the bottom of the shoe they couldn't see anything, but also couldn't get the shoe off. Took an Xray that showed a piece of something stuck in her foot. They finally removed it and it was a stick that had gone between the ridges in her shoe and into her foot.
She also was on antibiotics for awhile.
No one in the ER had ever seen that before either.
Kids, gotta love em.

Oh, my goodness!! Sounds like something that would happen here!!

__________________Janis

The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

Good lord, that'll make you wince! My eyes are watering just thinking about it, poor love. Makes you wonder how we all got through our teenage years, and I bet the needles will get a bit more respect now!